14.1.13

TODAY IN NEW YORK SOCIAL DIARY

In the early 1900s, when Bar Harbor socialites were  not busy evoking Marie Antoinette's France or Gainsborough's England, they channeled ancient Greece.  The Dilettante tells you why in today's New York Social Diary.

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4 comments:

Mark D. Ruffner said...

The construction of the Building of Arts is what I find most interesting — unusual choices, from the stucco to the wooden columns. How I would have loved to have salvaged some of the details!

The Devoted Classicist said...

Classy!
The description of the columns being turned raises a question, but it is possible, I suppose.
Great documentation of a wonderful building, D.E.D.

RPS said...

Terrific post, one of your best. I was just wandering around that area the other day, at sundown. (No trace, unfortunately, of Nijinsky.)

The Ancient said...

There's got to be a way -- some way -- to photograph those steps.